Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he was away last week, the National Assembly convened to elect a new President. On the third ballot. Deputies voted 232 to 188 to turn out Incumbent Socialist André Le Troquer. whose party has been most consistently behind Mendès' policies in spite of its refusal to join his Cabinet. In Le Troquers place the Deputies elected Pierre Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers...
...President-elect of Uruguay's National Council and the acting Foreign Minister of Argentina held a secret meeting on the last day of 1954 aboard a yacht anchored in the broad River Plate, which separates the two countries. Purpose: to discuss ways and means of lifting, or at least puncturing, the so-called "tin curtain" between democratic Uruguay and the Argentina of Strongman Juan...
...squads of eight, the Senators and Senators-elect marched solemnly down the center aisle into the well of the Senate-each newcomer escorted by an incumbent. Four at a time, the new Senators faced the rostrum and repeated the oath after Vice President Nixon. Then they signed the roster on the clerk's desk and went to their desks...
Mike asked nothing in return for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2. After the polls were closed, the two dissident voters came around to apologize in person. They had meant to cast their votes for Mike, they said, but they were illiterate and couldn't read the ballot...
...York's Democratic Governor-elect Averell Harriman last week paid the first installment on a debt owed to a careful political bookkeeper. As his secretary of state, he named Tammany Hall Leader Carmine G. (for Gerard) De Sapio, without whose help Harriman would still be a wistful political aspirant. Since New York is willing to pay its secretary of state $17,000 (plus $3,000 expenses) for such light-housekeeping duties as licensing hairdressers and sitting as chairman of the Cemetery Board, De Sapio will still be able to devote full time to his real job: that of managing...